This is the best comp at any price for guitar and as good or better than most high end studio comps intended for other instruments. Not like an aural enhancer, presence or treble of any kind. I doesn't compress,remove dynamics,limit or anything like that. I leave the comp on with the setting I mentioned earlier. I have a dumble clone I use for leads and fenders for clean. When I play with my Jazz group we play bebop on an archtop and fusion on my electric. Also, as I mentioned before I love jazz and thats what I play for love. If you have blown the 2 knob off in the past you need to try this. He cound't believe that this $250 box replaced those expensive rack mount compressors! We went to Keeley's site and he ordered some right then for a permanent place in his studio. The engineer was blown away and I was too. After the session was over we got an XLR adapter and started routing drums thru it then vocals and then bass.
I went over to my board and pulled off my new 4 knob compressor and handed it to him. Your humbuckers will have all the attack and punch that. No more wondering if you have the attack or release set right. Now there is a simple Release Switch that is tuned for single coils or humbuckers. The new features are simple and straight forward.
He said I'd love to use them on drums and vocals but I wish they had an attack time. The Keeley Compressor Plus is the first true advancement in our 2 and 4 knob compressor line. We started talking about keeley and he said I love my compressor and the way those tracks you just played didn't need any extra compression. They have thousands of dollars of compressors there and they usually use a device called a "distressor" to track guitars,drums etc. Not only does it act as a regular compressor, limiting the peaks in your playing, it adds more and more gain as notes fade out. Adjust the Attack knob fastest setting and see how you like That,and the other knob on the 4 knobber you shouldn't need,ENJOY May 10, 2012.
'It sounds great: a quality compression with adjustments to suit pro players' Available in two versions, this four-knob unit adds attack and clipping knobs over the original (£165), which instead incorporates them as internal trim pots. The Keeley does Compress, I would start out 9 oclock and work your way up, 25 would not be enough for me. The best thing is this adds no noise at all. The Keeley 4-Knob Compressor, regarded as one of the best boutique examples, is derived from that. You need a compressor to sound like the record. I play country and rock for money and compression is a big part of that slick produced sound. While early Keeley comps were simple two-knob devices, the basic Keeley Compressor has since evolved into the Compressor Plusa four-knob stomp with controls for tone, wet/dry blend, and a release time switch that compensates for the discrepancies in output from single coils and humbuckers. I doubt that thrashers and punk players are reading this because the don't need one but if you play rock,country and even jazz get one!
You will sound more professional no matter what you play. You couldn't so much tell that either of them was on when I used them, it was just that all those little parts I played that were soft and lightly picked sat in the mix just as nicely as the loud heavy parts.This box is pure and simple magic dust! If you don't want to hear squeezing then turn the sustain off, set attack to taste and match trim and levels to unity gain. My favorite compressor that I've owned so far was either the Keeley or the Black Finger, both because they were pretty transparent. It's supposed to be a pedal-format version of a Universal Audio 1176. Well now I'm building my pedal collection back up, and I definitely want to have a compressor or two in there.Ĭurrently I'm wondering if any of you guys have tried the Walrus Audio Deep Six compressor. I sold them all over the years, not necessarily because I wanted to, but at one point I didn't own any pedals. The 4 Knob adds Input Clipping and Attack controls to the top of the. So anyway, I've had an EHX Black Finger (large tube version), Keeley Compressor (two-knob version), a Barber Tone Press, and an Armstrong Orange Squeezer clone (built by theworkoffire) in the past. The Keeley Compressor is the award-winning industry standard for stomp box compression. Kind of necro-posting here, but this was the first thread that popped up in search as a sort of "let's all talk about compressors" thread.